⁸ for ^(A)you were once ^(B)darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as ^(C)children of light ⁹ (for ^(D)the fruit of the light consists in all ^(E)goodness, righteousness, and truth), ^10 [a](F)as you try to learn what is pleasing to the Lord. ^11 (G)Do not participate in the useless ^(H)deeds of ^(I)darkness, but instead even ^(J)expose them; ¹² for it is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret. ¹³ But all things become visible ^(K)when they are exposed by the light, for everything that becomes visible is light. ¹⁴ For this reason ^[b]it says,

¹² Now we ^(A)have not received the spirit of ^(B)the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God. ¹³ We also speak these things, ^(C)not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, ^[a]combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words.

¹⁴ But ^[b]a ^(D)natural person ^(E)does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are ^(F)foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. ¹⁵ But the one who is ^(G)spiritual discerns all things, yet he himself is ^[c]discerned by no one. ¹⁶ For ^(H)who has known the mind of the Lord, that he will instruct Him? But ^(I)we have the mind of Christ.